Actor: Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Eccleston played the Ninth Doctor for one series, reviving Doctor Who successfully and then leaving after a single year, which he has since attributed to conflict with the production.

Shallow Grave, Jude and 28 Days Later gave him film work, and Our Friends in the North on television is regarded as among the best British drama of its decade.

Thor: The Dark World buried him under prosthetics as Malekith, an experience he has described dismissively, and he has written openly about anorexia.